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The Flags, Saint Mark's, Venice - Fete Day

by Eugene Lawrence Vail

c. 1903
oil on canvas
Overall: 82 x 92.6 cm (32 5/16 x 36 7/16 in.) framed: 100 x 111.1 cm (39 3/8 x 43 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

Vail, Eugene Lawrence 
The Grave of William Penn

by Edward Hicks

c. 1847/1848
oil on canvas
60.4 x 75.5 cm (23 3/4 x 29 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

Hicks, Edward 
The Harbor of Seville

by Samuel Colman

1867
watercolor and gouache
overall: 31.5 x 70 cm (12 3/8 x 27 9/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

Colman, Samuel 
The Herbert Children

by Lambert Sachs

1857
oil on canvas
63.3 x 80.3 cm (24 15/16 x 31 5/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

Sachs, Lambert 
The Landing of Columbus

by Edward Hicks

c. 1837
oil on canvas
45 x 60 cm (17 11/16 x 23 5/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

Hicks, Edward 
The Leland Sisters

by Thomas Sully

c. 1830
oil on canvas
Overall: 41 x 51 cm (16 1/8 x 20 1/16 in.) framed: 64.1 x 73.7 x 8.3 cm (25 1/4 x 29 x 3 1/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

Sully, Thomas 
The Library in Venice

by John Singer Sargent

Undated
Watercolor with white gouache over graphite
56.8 x 45.1 cm (22 3/8 x 17 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

Sargent, John Singernotes
The Piazzetta, Venice and the Libreria  c.1904 Notes: Bibliography Lovell, Margaretta M., VENICE: THE AMERICAN VIEW 1860-1920, Fine Arts Museums of SF: 1984, no.62. Venice: From a State to a Myth. Exh. cat. San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice,1997: 386-387, no. 102. Little, Carl. The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent....
The Old Kettle

by John Frederick Peto

c. 1890s
oil on wood
overall: 12.7 x 20.3 cm (5 x 8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

Peto, John Frederick 
The Old Violin

by William Michael Harnett

1886
oil on canvas
Overall: 96.5 x 60 cm (38 x 23 5/8 in.) framed: 119.7 x 84.1 x 5.1 cm (47 1/8 x 33 1/8 x 2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

Harnett, William Michaelnotes
ated by showing signs of wear and age throughout the painting. Even the songs, one from Bellini's La Sonnambula, and the other the popular song "Helas, Quelle Douleur," are concerned with temporal change. But it is the violin itself, now mute, but worn with use and still dusted with rosin, that speaks most evocatively of past pleasures.
The Prodigal Son In Misery

by Mary Ann Willson

c. 1815
pen and black ink and watercolor
sight size: 37.5 x 31.5 cm (14 3/4 x 12 3/8 in.) framed: 49 x 42.2 x 2.8 cm (19 5/16 x 16 5/8 x 1 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

Willson, Mary Ann 
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